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I guess i've just been living in the dark ages for too long.... i've only had 3 employers in my entire dp life - my first NEVER put pcs on peoples desks. too cheap. we worked almost exclusively on twinax. (that was 7 years ago when I left) my second (i was a part owner of that one), I was more management than consultant, we worked on a shoestring budget - no laptops. When I did work outside the office, it was at large corps who had 'policies' that you couldn't stray from. the third, i've been at the same client for 2+ years, and it took me 6 months just to get them to get up to the right ptf levels to even run CODE. In the mean time, I'm working on 10+ small projects at a time, doing maintenance, etc. and it's hard for me to justify 'learning' a new IDE on thier dime. but again, they are all just 'excuses'. I NEED to do it, and I will eventually. Rick -------original message---------- Richard, >I've >never walked in the door of client, hooked my own fully configured pc up to >thier network and started working. OTOH, have you ever explained to them that by using your own laptop (or their PC which is not underpowered), that your productivity will be higher? I routinely use my own laptop at clients. Of course, I wouldn't do that to a *new* client without talking to them about it. But they may just be ignorant to the benefit of a more powerful workstation for developers. And they may be very receptive to making you more productive, especially if the project is T&M. Doug
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